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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH040 : Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 107  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Alysicarpus Neck. ex Desv. - moneywort
Species : Alysicarpus vaginalis (L.) DC. - white moneywort
Plant Location in Melghat : In open grassland & Fields  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Leguminosae  
 
Plant Common Name : Sauri, alyce clover, buffalo clover, buffalo-bur, one-leaf clover, and white moneywort
 
Synonym : Alysicarpus nummalarifolius Sensu auct.
Alysicarpus nummularifolius (L.)DC.
Alysicarpus vaginalis var. diversifolius Chun
Hedysarum vaginale L.
Description : Plant more or less prostrate, somewhat hairy branching herb. Leaves are of two types, closely spaced elliptic, and narrower, lanceolate once spaced farther apart. Leaves are about 3-10 mm long, rounded at tips, obtuse, or truncate at base, with short stalks, about 1-5 mm long. Flowers are reddish purple, in racemes up to 13 cm long, at the end of branches. Flower are 6 mm long. Pods are cylindric, jointed, nearly 2 cm long, 5-7-seeded. Seeds are pale brown, 1.5 mm long, oval.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : cytotoxicity, renal calculi and sepsis (Ediriweera, 2007; Kirtikar and Basu, 1935).The leaf extract has been used for the improvement of eye sight and earache (Tirkey, 2006). The roots of this plant are generally employed as diuretic; in kidney disorders, skin related problems, leprosy and pulmonary troubles (Burkill, 1985).
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Salicylic acid
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :